The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor Darfiana Nur
School: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Personal URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/profile/darfiana.nur.html

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2008 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 24th International Biometric Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 13/7/2008 - 18/7/2008   1700  
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2007, Lisboa Congress Centre, Lisboa, Portugal, 22/8/2007 - 29/8/2007   1700  
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Australian Statistical Conference ASC/NZSA 2006 Statistical Connections, 3-7 July 2006   1213  
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2006 1 University of Newcastle Equity Research Fellowship Equity Research Fellowship Semester 1, 2006   26162  
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2004 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Australian Statistical Conference ASC 2004, 11-16 July 2004, QLD   450  
Doctor Darfiana Nur 2003 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant Necessary and sufficient conditions for ergodicity of Smooth Threshold Autorgressive order 1 models with general delay parameter   8000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Statistics) Co-Supervisor Alternative Methods of Adjusting for Study Heterogeneity in Meta-Analyses
PhD (Statistics) Principal Supervisor Detecting Telecommunications Fraud Using Time Series Data Mining

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.900

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Gajda Dorota, Guihenneuc-Jouyaux Chantal, Rousseau Judith, Mengersen Kerry, Nur Darfiana, ’Use in practice of importance sampling for repeated MCMC for Poisson models’, Electronic Journal of Statistics, 4 361-383 (2010) [C1]

Nur Darfiana, Allingham David, Rousseau Judith, Mengersen Kerrie L, McVinish Ross, ’Bayesian hidden Markov model for DNA sequence segmentation: A prior sensitivity analysis’, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53 1873-1882 (2009) [C1]

Nur Darfiana, Nair G M, Yatawara N D, ’Efficient estimation in smooth threshold autoregressive (1) models’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2 83-94 (2008) [C1]

Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie L, Wolf Rodney C, ’Phase randomization: A convergence diagnostic test for MCMC’, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 47 309-323 (2005) [C1]

Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Considering Ethnicity in Teaching and Learning Statistics: Should I Worry About Where my Students Come From?’, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 7 123-131 (2003) [C1]

Conference Publication

Junaidi, Stojanovski Elizabeth, Nur Darfiana, ’Prior sensitivity analysis for a hierarchical model’, Proceedings of the 4th Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration (ASEARC) Conference, Parramatta, NSW (2011) [E1]

Nur Darfiana, ’Fast prior sensitivity analysis in Bayensian DNA sequence segmentation modelling’, Australian Statistical Conference (ASC) 2010: Abstracts, Fremantle, WA (2010) [E3]

Saaid Fatimah Almah, King Robert Arthur, Nur Darfiana, ’Development of users' call profiles using unsupervised random forest’, ASEARC: Proceedings of the Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E1]

Stojanovski Elizabeth, Junaidi, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie, ’Incorporating study characteristics in the modelling of associations across studies’, The International Biometric Society Australasian Region Conference: Biometrics on the Lake, Taupo, NZ (2009) [E3]

Nur Darfiana, Nair G M, ’On the necessary conditions for ergodicity of smooth threshold autoregressive (1) processes with general delay parameter’, ICCS-X: The 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences: Statistics for Development and Good Governance, Cairo, Egypt (2009) [E2]

Allingham David, King Robert Arthur, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie L, ’Further DNA segmentation analysis using approximate Bayesian computation’, Proceedings: IASC 2008: Joint Meeting of 4th World Conference of the IASC and 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Yokohama, Japan (2008) [E1]

Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie L, Lin Yan-Xia, ’Hidden Markov models for DNA sequence segmentation: Simulation and evaluation’, Proceedings of the XXIVth International Biometric Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland (2008) [E3]

Nur Darfiana, Lin Yan-Xia, ’On adaptive estimation in smooth threshold autoregressive (1) models with GARCH (1,1) errors’, Proceedings: IASC 2008: Joint Meeting of 4th World Conference of the IASC and 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Yokohama, Japan (2008) [E1]

Nur Darfiana, Mengersen K L, ’A prior sensitivity analysis for DNA sequence segmentation of the Bacteriophage lambda genome’, 9th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences 2007 (ICCS-IX). Abstract, Shah Alam, Malaysia (2007) [E3]

Mengersen K L, Nur Darfiana, Allingham David, Rousseau J, ’An importance sampling approach to sensitivity analysis of priors in bayesian analysis of DNA sequence segmentation’, Twin Research and Human Genetics, Brisbane (2007) [E3]

Allingham David, King Robert Arthur, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen K, ’Analysis of DNA sequence segmentation using approximate bayesian computation’, ISI 2007 Book of Abstracts. 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisboa, Portugal (2007) [E2]

Nur Darfiana, ’Sensitivity of priors in Bayesian analysis of DNA sequence segmentation’, ISI 2007 Book of Abstracts, Lisboa (2007) [E3]

Nur Darfiana, ’Finding transcription factor binding site: Markov Chain Monte Carlo convergence’, XXIII International Biometric Conference Program, Montreal, Canada (2006) [E3]

Nur Darfiana, ’Sufficient conditions for ergodicity of Smooth Threshold autoregressive (1) processes with general delay parameter’, ASC/NZSA 2006 Statistical Connections: Abstract Book, Auckland, New Zealand (2006) [E3]

Wolff R C, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Assessment of MCMC convergence: a time series dynamical systems approach’, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Singapore (2001) [E1]

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